At the end of January, while outside playing with Conner, I slipped and damaged my ankle—dislocated it and broke three bones. Now the ankle is held together with a metal plate and several screws. After the surgery I was forbidden to put any weight on it for ten weeks. I've had two months of physical therapy, and now I can walk a bit with a cane. I'm told it may take a year or so to get back to close to normal.
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Now, in May, I am finally getting back to some of my regular
activities—I can wash dishes, make the bed, and do laundry—fun,
fun, fun. I just can't stand up for more than about ten minutes.
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Sitting on the ground in the cold
waiting for someone to come and pick me up after breaking my ankle, I
thought some profound thoughts. One was that time is short and I had
better get on with doing those things I have always wanted to do.
I've always wanted a studio where I could make my crafty messes. The
original plan for the house above Heck Creek included a largish area
downstairs for this, but when the plan needed to be downsized, the
studio was lost. I talked things over with the Ralph, and we decided
we could go ahead and build a separate studio. In May the Ralph and
his friend, Jerry, rented a track-hoe and began the excavation.
Hopefully we can get the foundation poured and the block work done in
June.
Conner's gotcha day was in May. We've
had him for a year now. In mid-May we had a visit to the bird feeder
from a bear. Conner got excited and very loud. For about a week
afterwards, Conner would bark at every sound he heard all night
long—we had some interrupted sleep and lots of admonishments for
him to be a “quiet dog, quiet dog”.
I'm back to making handmade
books. I've tried to start a few in the past months, but there are
just some things I couldn't do sitting down like cutting book board,
making signatures, and making book cloth. Here's my version of the
Handmade Book Club May project— a small sketch book with spring leaf binding, a dyed cork
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